Today's trip was to the Egyptian Museum, where Sal, our archaeologist guide was to show us around.
(Unfortunately, none of my photos on this post, as photos of the museum are amongst the lost ones)
The Egyptian Museum is huge and if you were to spend one minute looking at each thing, you would be there for three months. And there are still thousands of pieces in the vaults below.
A Frenchman had the museum built as a house because they did not want a museum, but looking around the inside, it sure seemed like it was built to be a museum. (I believe the location of the museum has moved since we visited.)
Sal showed us all the best pieces and exhibits and our favorite exhibit was two mummies that Sal told us interesting tales about. They were called Princess Tia and Ming.
Ming was a very wealthy man, but a very nasty one, so when he was mummified they broke his neck after he died, took away his heart, so he could not enter the afterlife. They used poor quality linen and did not cross his hands over his heart.
After years of being left in the vault, they decided to take a closer look at him and do tests and CT Scans on him. Tests show that he had leukemia, however, he did not die from it and he appears to be the only human ever to be immune from this disease.
Ming will soon be going to Germany because they have located the gene for leukemia and they are hoping that could mean finding a cure for this disease in the very near future.
Ming's wife Princess Tia is the best preserved Mummy and most well done they have ever seen. She was well-liked and left her husband a short while after marrying him. She gave to the poor and treated them with respect.
She got all Ming's money when she died and she used that to pay for the best mummification seen so far.
Her spinal cord was replaced with an ivory stick after she died (it is still a mystery how the ancient Egyptians worked out the dimensions to do this perfectly, like so many Egyptian mysteries we will probably never know).
Sal showed us a video clip on his phone of the archaeological dig when these two mummies were found, as he was there.
After talking about these mummies, we had some free time to wander around the museum. We looked at Tutankhamun's treasures, particularly his mask and one of his sarcophaguses.
His actual mummy and another of his sarcophaguses have been put back in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
So much gold...
In fact the smallest piece of gold in the museum just one inch and it worth $7.2 million
Lines to Live by
I love my life.
I am beautiful.
I am powerful.
I am free.
I love my life
I am wonderful.
I am magical.
I am me.
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